The thing is... that's all the major languages. Even the ones that aren't necessarily like that, the culture / style ends up like that. The Python I'll write an

The thing is... that's all the major languages. Even the ones that aren't necessarily like that, the culture / style ends up like that. The Python I'll write and pass review at work is vastly different than the Python I would like to write, because I know the next person isn't going to understand my brilliant __metaclass__ and nested decorator approach that cuts 10k of imperative bullshit down to 20 lines - or worse they will understand it enough to make a change that causes an unacceptable performance degradation and not enough to realize that they did it. There's the famous line from GLS about Java: > We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. And probably there's some equivalent idea about Go not trying to win over the Clojure programmers, but rather dragging the enterprise Python/Ruby/JS/Java programmers halfway to C.